Vince Vaughn Explains Why 'The People In Charge' No Longer Finance R-Rated Comedies
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The "Old School" and "Wedding Crashers" star made his bones with expletive-laden comedies — and has a theory on why they no longer dominate theaters.
Vince Vaughn has a theory about the death of R-rated comedies — and isn’t mincing words.
The “Swingers” star famously made his bones with a string of raunchy, expletive-laden films at the turn of the millennium. When asked on “Hot Ones” Thursday why R-rated comedies no longer dominate the box office in the same way today, the former funnyman kept it real. (“Hot Ones” and HuffPost share a parent company, BuzzFeed.)
“They just overthink it,” said Vaughn about movie studio executives. “And it’s crazy.”
“You get these rules,” he added, “like, if you did geometry and you said 87 degrees was a right angle, then all your answers are messed up, instead of 90 degrees. So there became some idea or concept, like, they would say something like, ‘You have to have an IP.’”
Movies based on IP (or intellectual property) are certainly attractive prospects for financiers, as those projects already have a fan base and a proven history of demand. The shift toward comic book films, for instance, was largely based on the decadeslong success of their IPs.
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